Leadership is an innate quality, according to a fish study that predicted trouble in animal social groups, also human ones, when natural roles are reversed.

Groups tend to perform better with a combination of willing followers and strong leaders, which in most animal species are bolder, more extroverted individuals.

But incentives, like higher salaries for humans, can cause natural followers to become leaders, and scientists have long debated the desirability of such role reversal.

To probe whether natural followers can be turned into leaders and vice versa, a research team studied stickleback fish – a group foraging species known to have bold and shy individuals.

First, they studied the fish in large laboratory tanks for several weeks to separate the leaders from the followers.

Leaders were more prone to leave the deep, covered, ‘safe’ area of a tank and travel through ‘risky’, shallow waters to get to a feeding station.

The fish were then divided into pairs, each with one bold and one shy member, the team wrote in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In one experiment, the fish were rewarded with food for displaying their natural behaviour – the leader for initiating a trip and the follower for trailing behind. In a second, they were rewarded for role reversal – the shy fish for each time it initiated a foraging trip and the bolder one for following.

‘Our prediction was that bold individuals would perform poorly when forced to adopt the role of follower, considering that they are less responsive to other individuals’ behaviour,’ study co-author Shinnosuke Nakayama of the University of Cambridge’s zoology department told AFP by email.

The opposite turned out to be true: leader fish were much quicker to adopt a follower role than the other way round.

‘Fish can learn to follow but struggle to learn to lead,’ said Nakayama of the findings.

‘We found that leaders are born, not made,’ added a study summary.

The role reversal also had an impact on group success.

When incentivised to act against their natural instincts, fewer foraging excursions resulted in both members of a pair being fed.

The team said their findings raised intriguing questions for the broader study of group behaviour.

‘Strong positive effects of personality variation are only likely to emerge when members of a group are free to establish their own roles, such that bolder (or, in the human case, more extroverted) individuals can assume leadership,’ the study suggested.

It would appear to ‘be better for us to adopt social roles of leader and follower in the way we feel natural’, added Nakayama.

Source: http://www.magazine.believersboard.com/study-finds-fish-born-lead/

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Rubish

Fish , okay oh

wetin we no go hear

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2nd to comment,some fish are born for peppersoup

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Smartini: Then lead your way inside my pot,baby Fishacita! 2nd to comment...

when did yhu eat fish last talk less. yhu wey b sey na only Xmas day una dey chop fish.

‘We found that leaders are born, not made,’ added a study summary

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Dubby6: Rubish

and your reasons are? I think the study is brilliant....and it might even explain why black nations dont fare well post colonisation

That may be truth simply because some people always shy while they're introvert as well and for such person; they'll find it difficult to lead while the extrovert and bold persons would be more advantageous to lead their group, organization and country only if such person posessed the requirement of being leader.

Last to comment sa

Just like human being, some are born to lead e.g Tinubu.

Fish pepper soup with chilled wine.
Going going.....

We are all animals, just that we are higher animals.

Baybe: We are all animals, just that we are higher animals.

biology talk

End time tinz

some are some humans born to lead

Oya my great nairalanders, Like this post if you no get time read all that tory wey dis OP write for dia. wetin concern us and leader fish.

Nna fish ke?

Okporoko comes to mind.

boko are rams: 2nd to comment,some fish are born for peppersoup

look at what ASUU hv done to ur brain,so u can't evn count again

gratiaeo: End time tinz

A Mod hidded my post because of this comment.

!b :oGrilled fish are born 2 b spiced abi........ Tell us more